Muslim Powerplay in Europe

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France's Ramadan Uprising - a Ticking Bomb for Europe

"France's leaders, like the British and Dutch, are clinging to the

hope that sympathetic dialogue with moderate Muslims will calm the

street, despite all the evidence that radical, activist Muslims do

not heed established Islamic authorities."

DEBKAfile Special Report

 

November 7, 2005, 3:44 PM (GMT+02:00)

The violent riots spreading across France took several worrying

directions Sunday night, Nov. 6, and Monday. The mostly Muslim gangs

of youths began surging out of the immigrant suburbs to invade town

centers; they fired their first gunshots at policemen; the number of

torched cars peaked to 1,400; and disturbing new slogans were

hurled, depicting Paris as "Baghdad-on-the Seine" and their campaign

as the start of Europe's Ramadan Intifada.

 

A single slogan made a mockery of president Jacques Chirac's efforts

of the last three years to distance France from President George W.

Bush's Iraq war. Furthermore, the French government's helplessness

in quelling the trouble is encouraging other European communities to

follow suit - in Denmark, Belgium, Spain and Sweden, for starters.

 

Chirac, after lying low for 10 days, finally called an emergency

security meeting in Paris Sunday, Nov. 6. He then promised arrests,

trials and punishment for those who "sow violence or terror" across

France. But politics as usual held him back from instituting tough

measures or naming those responsible for the violence, let alone

deploying the necessary forces. French police are still under orders

not to open fire unless fired on first. No names have been released

of ringleaders despite several hundred arrests.

 

Saturday, Nov. 5, as the disorders went into their second week, the

French prosecutor-general Yves Bot said he had detected an organized

hand and a strategy behind the riots. Witnesses reported vehicles

without number-plates distributing petrol bombs. A fuel bomb factory

was in fact discovered Sunday in Paris with 150 bottles and gallons

of gasoline ready to distribute to the bands of arsonists. Also

found there were masks to hide rioters' faces. In Clichy-sour-Bois,

where the accidental electrocution of two teenagers in flight from

the police ignited the first protests, residents said: This is just

the beginning.

 

There are plenty of indications that the riots are not simply

spontaneous outbursts of frustration by disadvantaged youths of

North and black African descent, but centrally organized mayhem,

an "intifada" activated by Muslim networking.

 

The Chirac-de Villepan government, trying to live down interior

minister Nicolas Sarkozy's provocative pledge to deal with what he

called "scum," is not acknowledging this. Because they refuse to

recognize the rampage for what it is, they are withholding the

forces required to restore order and so letting the danger get out

of hand. Police, firemen and paramedics are no match for a fast

developing civil war. The army will have to be brought in at some

point, preferably sooner rather than later. For a start, marksmen

need to be posted to pinpoint the ringleaders and the bottle-bomb

wielders targeting cars, schools, shops, warehouses and public

buildings.

 

France's leaders, like the British and Dutch, are clinging to the

hope that sympathetic dialogue with moderate Muslims will calm the

street, despite all the evidence that radical, activist Muslims do

not heed established Islamic authorities. On Nov. 6, the Union of

Islamic Organizations in France, UOIF, issued a fatwa forbidding

Muslims to seek "divine grace" by blindly attacking private and

public property and urging meditation and calm.

 

The following night, bands of marauding Muslim youths extended their

areas of attack from outlying city districts to urban centers and

started shooting at police officers.

 

The controlling hand, far from being legitimate Muslim authority, is

beginning to emerge as the very organization that has for several

years been recruiting young fighters in French Muslim ghettos fight

al Qaeda's wars against the West in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and

other sectors.

 

On February 20, 2004, DEBKA-Net-Weekly and DEBKAfile were first to

reveal the extent of al Qaeda's penetration of West Europe. They

turned up French intelligence statistics which estimated that "al

Qaeda had recruited in France between 35,000 and 45,000 fighters and

was organizing them in military-style units. They meet regularly for

training in the use of weapons and explosives, combat tactics and

indoctrination and are controlled from local and district command

centers under the organization's national French command."

 

"In Germany, Al Qaeda's numbers are estimated at 25,000 to 30,000

men."

 

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Today, French counter-terror sources are willing to admit, albeit on

the quiet and not for attribution, that those clandestine terrorist

cells may well be at the bottom of the current riots. They note the

history of the Palestinian uprising, which kicked off in 1987 with

stones and petrol bombs, only to evolve into a suicidal terrorist

war by the late nineties. They fear this process may be beginning -

not just in France but in the rest of Europe too, that the covert

nucleus of trained and indoctrinated Islamic terrorists al Qaeda

buried inside Europe is being turned against the continent, starting

in France.

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